2026 marks the 9th Annual Comedy Mob Festival 🎉
The Comedy Mob Festival is a New York–based stand-up comedy festival built to spotlight the city’s hardest-working comics. The winner(s) get passed at Rodney’s Comedy Club and Comedy Mob, plus cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, with $1,000 going to the champion.
The festival runs in three rounds:
Preliminaries → 3 comics advance from each show
Semifinals → 6 comics advance to the Finals from each show
Finals
Winners are chosen each round by a panel of industry judges plus audience vote
What makes the Comedy Mob Festival different?
You’re competing for real opportunities, not just prize money—and the festival is free to enter.
Sign-ups open the first week of July and stay open for one month.
The festival kicks off September 12, 2026.
Video submissions need to be at least 5 minutes long. We recommend doing the Mob Showcase first so we can see you perform live as well. That will be taken into strong consideration.
